Legal Opinion
State v. Currie
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided February 17, 1964PublishedCited by 107 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Jacobs, J.
On August 21, 1960 Lieutenant Mullen, Sergeant Koczan and Detective Petro of the Perth Amboy police force, in the course of an investigation, were riding in Koc-zan’s car when they saw the defendant Daniel Currie driving a car. Koczan positioned his car diagonally across the road, whereupon Currie stopped some 25 feet away. Mullen then left the Koczan car, approached the Currie car and told Cur-rie that he was a police officer. At that point Currie put his car in gear and started to make a sharp left turn around the Koczan car. Mullen, who…
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